Kara Swisher

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Viral Video: Mel Gibson Paps the Paps

Mel Gibson’s life seems like a long and unending celebrity tabloid accident, so it’s no surprise that he is constantly followed around by swarms of paparazzi.

Earlier this week, the volatile actor turned the tables on a bunch, by using a smartphone to film them. (I can’t tell which one he is using, though.) They, in turn, took video of him.

Gibson stayed cool, as one of the paps harassed him in an exceptionally rude manner, obviously trying to get a rise out of him–to no avail.

It’s a fascinating video of Hollywood eating its own tail:

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I think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”

— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik